gCypriots will agree on the November 1963 ideas or an offshoot, which is more than any 18%/10% minority has anywhere in any western democratic country. At the very least there have to be such safeguards so as to prevent the minority to stall developments, dictate policy, veto normal budgetary or other processes, or worse even stand in the way of the state fulfilling its EU responsibilities. Especially when the minority is/will be at the mercy of a not so democratic Turkey with a seeming competitive, even retaliatory, agenda vis-a-vis some of the EU's member nations, especially the larger ones.
My advice to tCypriots is to redefine in their minds what an 82-90/18-10 equality means. Then seek to reintegrate themselves into the Republic of Cyprus. If they are just and honest in their requests/ ideas/ demands, their approach in general, then they have nothing to fear.
If on the other hand tCypriots stick to the ill-logic that they are equal partners of the state and they hold as their bible the ill-designed 1960, then their stance is not only hypocritical but disastrous as well. After all, it was the tCypriot leaders themselves who abandoned the government in the 60s in a process known as self-segregation, also attested as such by the UN Secretary General himself. And they did so after proven planned efforts by the TMT tCypriot terrorist organization, with support from Turkish intelligence services, to bring havoc to Cyprus and obstruct the normal functioning of the newly created state, via acts of murdering Cypriots and bombing mosques and placing the blame on gCypriots, a habit that still haunts Turkish society as the ongoing Sledgehammer/Ergenekon trials in Turkey have demonstrated.
After all, if we are to go back in time, gCypriots will insist to go back to 1959, not 1960! In 1959 the people of Cyprus wished self-determination on the land they have lived on since more than 3.000 years ago. And the will of an overwhelming 82% was denied. How democratic was that?
The litmus test of tCypriots' sincerity is:
Would tCypriots support Kurds [22% of Turkey's population] to acquire the same community right within the confines of the Turkish state if Kurds demand it?
If tCypriots' answer is positive, then that right is most likely a must have for the tCypriot community as well.
Naturally noone suggests to deny tCypriots any human right, as often is the case in Turkey for example. Neither would anyone deny tCypriots the right to veto any decision that has a direct impact on their community's security.
In conclusion the message is two-fold:
[1] to the gCypriots, manage tCypriots' expectations; it is the honest thing to do.
[2] to the tCypriots, abandon the ill-logic of 1960; it is the very root of our suffering.
